'While the defendants LeBron James, Drake, and Maverick Carter are internationally known and renowned in their respective fields of basketball and music, it does not afford them the right to steal another’s intellectual property.'
, former NBA players union head Billy Hunter and his attorney Larry Hutcher have filed a lawsuit in New York state Supreme Court over the rights to Black Ice: The Lost History of the Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes, 1895 to 1925.
In the suit, Hunter, the National Basketball Players Association’s executive director from 1996 to 2013, says he holds exclusive rights to any film made about the CHL due to a deal he struck with the book’s authors, George and Darril Fosty, in March 2019. The deal included a $10,000 down payment and an “option agreement” for a movie adaptation.
“While the defendants LeBron James, Drake and Maverick Carter are internationally known and renowned in their respective fields of basketball and music, it does not afford them the right to steal another’s intellectual property,” Hutcher said in the suit, per theIn addition to James and Drake, Hunter also listed James’s companies, The Springhill Company and Uninterrupted Canada,plus Drake’s Dreamcrew Entertainment, a firm he co-founded with fellow rapper Future, as defendants.
The suit says Hunter and his lawyer later submitted a breach-of-contract letter to the defendants on Nov. 1, 2021, after learning of the movie and Drake’s involvement as an executive producer. Hutcher was then reportedly told by the Fostys that the “competing venture” did not violate his “exclusive worldwide license” or film rights because the “documentary” was different and did not violate the agreement, which Hutcher adamantly disagreed with.
“A documentary is still a ‘motion picture’ and an ‘audiovisual adaptation,’ and any claim to the contrary is absurd and made in bad faith,” Hutcher stated in the suit, per theThe suit also claims Hunter paid the Fostys $250,000 in February 2022 to retain “exclusive worldwide rights” to any “audiovisual” adaptation of thestory.
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